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City Cracks Down on Unseemly Birdfeeders

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To wit, this is the place that has on the books (and threatens to enforce) a law forbidding more than three unrelated people from living together, a measure derided by off-campus Northwestern University students as the “ brothel law.”

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One More Reason for Gratitude

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Unfortunately, my daughter, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law all work for Mexican entities that do not give them the day off, so the celebration was moved to Saturday. And, of course, there were also Rufous , Berylline , White-eared , and Broad-tailed Hummingbirds to be seen.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of May 2017?

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of course, for the futures of your favorite migrants, but not so much for their enduring presence in your current spring. Last spring, I uncovered a few nesting spots for warblers down where my mother-in-law lives, so we’re going to pay her (and them) a visit this weekend. This bodes well. Enjoy them while they last.

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Birding Senegal: Costco ads and Scissor-tailed Kites

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Hannah Buschert started birding in college thanks to a required Biology of Birds course and a professor who included Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Birds to punctuate lessons. Of course, there are factors in play, a glaring one being listing platform preference (eBird vs. BirdTrack, for example).

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The Feast of Stephen

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Of course, that’s not the only Yuletide ritual with uncomfortable implications for the Class Aves. In Wales people who slept in late – and female servants, who probably never slept in late in their lives – used to be beaten with holly branches for luck, although modern assault laws have largely ended the practice.

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Twenty-Four Hours of Awesome Part One: A Burrowing Owl?!?!?!

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Daisy was working late and my mother-in-law had kindly started to make me some spicy ramen for dinner. Forgetting, of course, that I am an administrator of the page and we have a strict no-specific-locations-of-owls rule.) I was home on Thursday evening hanging out with Desi. The expletives that flew!

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Willow Ptarmigan in Jefferson County, New York!

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Of course, I had to go and see the bird! We crossed the Delaware Water Gap, the Endless Mountains, the Southern Tier of New York, and then, as I pushed my Ford Focus to its limits, we crossed the law and the law won. Also, note the lack of red dots to indicate where the bird has shown up as a vagrant. Willow Ptarmigan twitchers.

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